garmin gps waypoint symbols with a garmin

These waypoints are made by me, and to rid you of any doubt regarding what the symbols are depicting i have made this description:Ġ20 Teal, female (may perhaps be used for most female ducks?)Ġ23 Mandarin Duck :-) If anyone shoots one, let me know how they taste! It seems like it's only possible to have 56 custom symbols. The symbol files must be 24-bit Windows bitmaps (*.bmp)įor symbol transparency you must use the colour magenta RGB: 255, 0 ,255.

If any of you want to make your own symbols the following applies: That is, only the icons, not the 'Icons for BaseCamp' folder. The symbols for use in the BaseCamp software on the PC, can be found in the 'Icons for Base Documents > My Garmin > Custom Waypoints. That is, only the icons, not the 'Icons for Alpha' folder. Thus the symbols for the GPS unit can be found in the folder named 'Icons for Alpha'Ĭonnect the GPS to the PC through the USB cable an place the Symbols in the folder: But when I understood that the symbols should be named differently on the two units the transfers worked perfectly! At first I named the files 00* both in the GPS and BaseCamp but then the symbols failed to synchronise and I got boring dots when transfering from the Alpha to BaseMap. It took me forever to learn that the naming worked like this. In the PC the same symbol must be named: 00* eller 0** (i.e. Custom 0, Custom 1, Custom 2, Custom 11, Custom 55 etc.) In the GPS all symbols must be named: Custom * (i.e. These waypoint symbols were made for my Garmin Alpha 100 GPS/dog tracker (I suppose it will work with other Garmin GPS'es with a colour screen) and the PC software Garmin Base Camp.įor some incomprehensible reason the symbols will only sync between the GPS and BaseCamp if they are named as follows:

Garmin gps waypoint symbols with a garmin